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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 10:28 am, Simon Waters wrote: > With two lines at 1:50 you are probably contending with yourself so load > balancing wouldn't help with contention much I suspect, depending how > they implement the sharing at/behind the exchange. sometimes you will get faster 50:1 than you will 20:1. Infact, in most buiness areas, or where people thought they'd be better of getting 20:1, it's actually a lot slower. I have a 2mbit (20:1) line, a 512k (20:1), and a 512k (50:1) line. At times the 512k 50:1 line is faster than 20:1 lines, and i know it's not contention on our HG... > Since they are probably both plugged into the same DSLAM in the same > exchange, I doubt it would help much with reliability, either! Well, re reliability, yes,, it can help. if the dslam dies, you wibble too, but there is a lot after that that is seperated on the home/business front that could, and does break. > <plug for free software>Without knowing more about your requirements it > is hard to comment. I believe UKFSN.ORG are launching an ADSL service > imminently. </plug for free software> > > Wonder if Theo does ADSL... Of course :) > I think doing the Office again I'd use a hosted fax service - fax to > email, for incoming. As for business lines, is distinctive ring an option? I made the distinctive ring mistake. Now i get about 50 calls a day on it, and the only was i can divert is by diverting my whole line (personal and private) to the companies 0845xxx number. I've had to train all of support that if they get an odd sounding greek person that is screaming down the phone, just put them through to me :-p I'd really advide against distinctive ring, unless you have a company give you an 0845/0870 number on that which then rings the distinct number.. Altough we don't "officialy" do 0845/0870 -> landline number thing, if you are stuck for a company to do it, drop me an email. > I went ISDN myself, still the only offering here, but the bills are > rather big for a dosmetic telephone user once you add in Anytime. So I'd > err on the side of not committing to big annual contracts unless the > busiess/office needs clearly dictate it, distinctive ring, plus 50:1 ?! I was using 0845 isdn2e for 8 months here until the exchange finally got enabled last week again. OK, so we did actually get a lot of the revenue back - but thats besde the point. My phone bills were scary. ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://theo.me.uk/> - --------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ - --------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7c3P448CrwpTn6YRAs0nAKDCrtOzAgLln+d0asde5q3UZkFVmwCgloA8 R/at2tAfyEoqSF54GMd/m1g= =MhhH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.